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Most of the covers are from the Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen spinoff comic books. It was pretty common to have the cover featuring Superman doing something "out of character" and really evil to get people to buy the book out of curiousity. Trying to provoke a "OMG! Why's Superman doing THAT?" reaction. But they did it so much it doesn't really seem out of character eventually.
That site has other categories, too. There's some hilariously offensive ones from WW2, back before the days of PC.
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If I remember correctly from a previous discussion of these covers from another message board...
Someone would make one of these paradox covers, and then the writer/artist would have fun making them into a story that makes sense. The story on the inside almost never contained the scene on the cover beyond a passing glance.
Inside, Superman and the Legion of Superheroes have one of those "mistaken identity" super-hero fights. They mistake superman for someone who had attacked them recently before this comic. The team fights superman for a bit, and superman pretty much gets his butt kicked, until the Legion realizes who they are fighting. So they stop beating superman up, and they talk . Nowhere in the comic does anything resembling the cover take place.
Its mostly a marketing thing .
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Wow those were great, how much do the comics sell for these days? Did Superman and Lois really have a kid or were those just 'What if?' type stories?
quote:Originally posted by Bean Counter: Wow those were great, how much do the comics sell for these days? Did Superman and Lois really have a kid or were those just 'What if?' type stories?
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DC has had so many different universes and restarts that they make the Highlander movies look logical.
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Oh! That's the cover from the one where they explain it's all a Jedi Mind Trick (or the equivalent), right?
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And did you notice how well-coiffed the stylist himself was? I bet he can accessorize like Olympia Dukakis.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Oh. My. Gosh.
Oh my. I know someone who must absolutely adore that one. (He is a comics fan, and most emphatically not a Jimmy fan.)
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The Kryptonians were evidently capable of interstellar flight. In all that time, they must have gotten to a yellow sun. Once they noticed they had super strength, super-speed, nigh-invulnerability, photographic high-speed memory, flight, x-ray vision, and all the rest, wouldn't some of them have migrated?
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Aside from how funny some of them were, I found it fascinating to trace little things throughout the decades like the width of Superman's chin, the definition of his muscles, the curliness of his hair, the size of his hanging lock of hair, etc.
I also found it interesting that the cover designers have evidently never heard a toddler speak.
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The Kryptonians were evidently capable of interstellar flight. In all that time, they must have gotten to a yellow sun. Once they noticed they had super strength, super-speed, nigh-invulnerability, photographic high-speed memory, flight, x-ray vision, and all the rest, wouldn't some of them have migrated?
I can't tell you (because I don't know) what the comics have done with this sort of thing.
However, the usual explanation I've heard in L&C circles for why Jor-El and Lara sent off Kal-El (aka Clark/Supes) but didn't come with him is that Kryptonian interstellar abilities were only just getting to the point that small ships (big enough to hold a baby or a dog, but not an adult or two) were possible. This makes little sense to me, but hey -- it's comic-book physics!
(It also breaks down when we look at the New Kryptonians and their ilk.)
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